Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 712: Growing and Designing with Hellebores. Meet our Hellebore Experts, Diane Szukovathy and Dennis Westphall of Jello Mold Farm and Rizaniño “Riz” Reyes of RHR Horticulture
April 16, 2025

https://youtu.be/02kn4dOI2tg?si=M1TUm5AjdtUwbr_z Just in time for gardening and farming season, Im thrilled to introduce you to The Flower Farmers,my new book co-authored with longtime collabora

Episode 711: Flower farming as a second career with environmental educator Amy Brodbeck Linhart of Humming Harvest Farm
April 09, 2025

https://youtu.be/AMujMVQSGkM?si=2ZjthEzgpVZzdUH_ Its early in the season, but Amy Linhart already has been harvesting from her crop of 13,000 daffodils to supply her main wholesale customer, an u

Episode 710: Celebrating 100 years of California flower farming with Mike A. Mellano of Mellano & Co.
April 02, 2025

https://youtu.be/00GygVX1-oY?si=RNAkJecm0tqTCNyR The Southern California farm synonymous with breathtaking blooms and gorgeous flowers and foliage is celebrating its 100th year in business this ye

Episode 709: Diana Roy of Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers on welcoming the 2025 International Protea Conference to their fields
March 26, 2025

https://youtu.be/JtAXk83WRGs?si=fOCKwJtSS5qZysiZ Lovers of Fynbos, the beautiful plants in the Proteacae family, will enjoy todays conversation with expert protea grower and long-time Slow Flower

Episode 708: Reconceptualized Sympathy Flowers with Nicole Wright of The Pink Peony
March 19, 2025

https://youtu.be/UL1__YrDzHs?si=lKHhw6SLt2EANe_a After years of frustration over outdated and unsustainable floral options that funeral homes offered bereaved families, floral designer Nicole Wrig

Episode 707: Cassie Plummer of Vermont’s Jig-Bee Flower Farm on diversifying with open-pollinated, non-GMO treated, sustainably-grown flower seeds
March 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/XJdj0U5NqC4?si=irqk_FX_GQ_qLe-j If youre interested in what flower farmings chapter two might look like, todays guest shares one version of that narrative. After 8 years of i

Episode 706: Flori’s Lori Poliski on the Art of Pot-et-Fleur, A Large-Scale Design Demonstration With Plants, Cut Flowers, and Foliage
March 05, 2025

https://youtu.be/NCf0gEPkzDk?si=8FLuZLE6FHh28WuQ Lori Poliski is reviving the forgotten art of Pot-et-Fleur, an iconic floral style, historically defined as living arrangements with plants, cut f

Episode 705: Growing Flowers in the Edible Garden, with Willi Galloway, author of “Grow Cook Eat”
February 26, 2025

https://youtu.be/cq7Uf-SBTC8?si=w8z2EoJRqN1NqrfP Master Gardener and writer Willi Galloway is a home gardener who loves to grow food and cook with the vegetables she harvests from her urban kitche

Episode 704: Sweet Pea School with Marryn Mathis of The Farmhouse Flower Farm
February 19, 2025

https://youtu.be/xuhf4DJpX2o?si=wyTAMBP3B1B8qw9t Take a deep breath and inhale the intoxicating fragrance of a sweet pea. Who wouldnt want to grow this stunning annual flower beloved for its dr

Episode 703: The New Art of Paper Flowers with Quynh Nguyen of Pink & Posey
February 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/Qr-Di1slgMQ?si=sHuKvg69KD_g4MIf Join Quynh Nguyen, the paper artist behind Pink and Posey, as she shares her decade-long journey in paper artistry, from crafting her first floral